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18th Century Romance – The way to a Man’s Heart
In the eighteenth century, romance was a story and marriage was comfort and security; a sentiment that Thomas Fuller seemed to promote in his book Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, published in 1732: ‘Of soup and love, the first is the best’. My Mum always told me the way to a … Continue reading